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As I mentioned at the beginning of this book, the growing diffusion among large firms of the so-called Charters of Values or of the Business Principles and, long before both, of the Ethics Codes is the result of a long and diversified process that has currently reached its zenith and that reveals not only a great problem of social order but also the need, felt by the business world, to give a purpose to life at work.
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Sapelli, G. (2013). Responsibility “Beyond the Law”. In: Morality and Corporate Governance: Firm Integrity and Spheres of Justice. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2784-8_5
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